So are you thinking of using callLater from within a creation complete handler that would then call invalidateSize which would kick off the measure method which would then have the appropriate textHeight available?
--- In [email protected], "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use callLater to check after the control has rendered. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of jandersen1978 > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 8:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Determining textHeight and textWidth when htmlText > contains images... > > > > I'm trying to build a text component that will dynamically size its > height based on the textHeight property after its htmlText property is > set. However, it appears that the textHeight property doesn't include > the height of images loaded into the component. e.g. comparing the > textHeight of components displaying a string of HTML--one with an > image and the other without--yields the same values... > > Anyone know how to reliable guage how large the content of a text > component is when using htmlText with images? > Thanks! > --James >
